the other into her mouth, for she could not carry both.

"Get behind me, Nada," cried Umslopogaas, brandishing his spear, "the

As the words left his mouth the great brute crouched to the ground.

Then suddenly he sprang from it like a bird, and like a bird he

travelled through the air towards us.

"Catch him on the spears!" cried Umslopogaas, and by nature, as it

were, we did the boy's bidding; for huddling ourselves together, we

held out the assegais so that the lion fell upon them as he sprang,